CLINICAL MEDICINE

Detailed explanation-1: -Fungi do not possess chlorophyll. Hence they are incapable of photosynthesis.So, they depend on either living organisms or non-living things.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fungi are heterotrophic. Fungi are not able to ingest their food like animals do, nor can they manufacture their own food the way plants do. Instead, fungi feed by absorption of nutrients from the environment around them.

Detailed explanation-3: -But fungi do not contain chlorophyll, the pigment that green plants use to make their own food with the energy of sunlight. Instead, fungi get all their nutrients from dead materials that they break down with special enzymes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fungi cannot make their own food like plants can, since they do not have chloroplasts and cannot carry out photosynthesis. Fungi are more like animals because they are heterotrophs, as opposed to autotrophs, like plants, that make their own food.

Detailed explanation-5: –Option B is correct because all animals and fungi are heterotrophs as they can’t produce their own food. They all depend on the autotrophs( primary producers) and on other organisms for food. Hence, also known as consumers.